hog, hogge

[Wel.huch=asow; Bret. houch, hoch; Corn. hach =a hog, a pig.] IMG:content-1206.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Naut .: A scrub-broom for cleaning a ship's bottom, under water. 2. Paper- making : A revolving beater in a chest paper pulp, which agitates the pulp so as keep it of uniform consistence as it flows to the paper-making machine. 3. Zool.: Sus scrofa. It has two large teeth or tusks in the upper, and two in the lower, jaw. The body is covered with bristles. When wild it is of a dark brindled hue, with soft short hairs beneath its bristles. In domestication the ears become long, sharp-pointed, and pendent. The hog when wild feeds on beech-mast, chestnuts, acorns, crabs, haws, sloes, hips, gra , roots, . When he can obtain IMG:content-1207.png:[blocks in formation] Zool.: The genus Oniscus (q. v.). It is not an insect, but an isopodous crustacean.